I always thought W. 's comment to Cheney near a live mike during the 2000 election: "There's Adam Clymer, major-league asshole from the New York Times" and Cheney replying back "Oh yeah, big time" pretty much clinched the election for him.

As a new convert to the left's insistence that we respect science, their deep concern for the health of the citizenry, and their vision to create a tight-knit, loving community of compassion (as well as their attention to keeping healthcare costs down):

I propose the immediate passage of tough new federal laws to restrict gay sex, limit to 3 the number of sexual partners each person can have, ban smoking outright, and ban unwed birth and divorce.

Science is clear that these activities all cause an increase incidence of health problems, and it isn't fair that some people should use up more than their fair share of health care resources and costs.

It should be widely declared that it is unpatriotic and morally wrong to our collective community, to get an STD and thereby waste government and the tax payer's resources to treat you.

Therefore, I propose a Sex Partner Cap and Trade system whereby each person can sell or buy their allotment of sexual partners.

Smokers should be put in jail for absconding with the public's hard borrowed health care funds.

Abortion must be recognized for what it truly is - a killer of a future tax payer and insurance buyer - and therefore must be banned.

I'm starting to see the left's vision for a Utopian society. I wonder they can see and agree with my vision also.

Science has determined that the impulse to control the behavior of others is a nervous condition that left untreated develops to a debilitative state. This is bad. For the sake of a healthy community, it's determined to check those impulses, whenever such a thought is expressed, the person should deposit $5.00 into a community account to be divided between myself and for M&M candy for everybody else.

No, no, no, Quayle--smoking should be ENCOURAGED (though not near nonsmokers): Taxes on cigarettes fund a hell of a lot of other stuff (have you checked lately how much states rely on them?), and we can always just refuse to treat smokers for any condition that could be related to smoking, thus NOT expending any more (and likely less) health care resources on them. And then, they'll die younger!--thus posing less of drain than longer-living elderly types do. Think of the savings in Social Security payouts, for example.

In fact, I let the air out of my tires then ran errands with them improperly inflated just to prove the point I don't need no stink'n president instructing me on car maintenance. Then I filled them back a little beyond the stated level just to be bouncier because it's fun. So there

There are no words that sufficiently describe how embarrassing Biden is. His role in the current meltdown of our relationship with Israel makes this gaffe pale in comparison. Can't we lock him in a room somewhere and slide food & water through a slot in the door?

A priest read him his last rites at a Wilmington hospital where doctors told him an artery in his brain was leaking blood, he wrote in his book "“Promises to Keep".

“As I heard it, my chances of surviving the surgery were certainly better than fifty-fifty,” he wrote. “But the chances of waking up with serious deficits to my mental faculties were more significant.”

Let's review the order of succession - Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Robert Byrd.

Let's review the order of succession - Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Robert Byrd.

And that explains why Obama scarcely needs Secret Service or a life insurance policy while he's in office.

When Obama selected Biden, I said that very day it was reason enough for him to lose the election. Then the MSM deep-sixed its coverage of Biden, he just completely disappeared, and they covered up all his past mishaps, too. Anyone familiar with Biden's record knows that he was a very poor choice for the office.

So now that President Obama did exactly what he said he would, making most here look like the fools that they are, we're now moving onto whatever you can come up with to bitch and whine about the Vice-President.

So far the local tea bagger wing nuts here have been wrong about literally everything they think will come to pass.

If Uglycrat Senator Robert Byrd can refer to his opponents as "white n-----s" while the NAACP and the national press yawns, then our brilliant Vice President is certainly free to drop F-bombs whenever and wherever he likes. Hell, bring him on Sesame Street and let him tell the kids about the letter "F". He's an Uglycrat, so anything he says is charming by default.

“As I heard it, my chances of surviving the surgery were certainly better than fifty-fifty,” he wrote. “But the chances of waking up with serious deficits to my mental faculties were more significant.”

It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law was made a distant moon ago here:July and August cannot be too hot.And there's a legal limit to the snow hereIn Camelot.The winter is forbidden till DecemberAnd exits March the second on the dot.By order, summer lingers through SeptemberIn Camelot.

Camelot! Camelot!I know it gives a person pause,But in Camelot, CamelotThose are the legal laws.The snow may never slush upon the hillside.By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear.In short, there's simply notA more congenial spotFor happily-ever-aftering than hereIn Camelot.

let's stop pretendingthat Vice-President Biden saying fuck to express his joy and jubilation over something for which he worked his entire legislative career is newsworthy. Instead, let's focus on how far and far the GOP and their supporters are from kookistan and devolving by the second.

kentucky liz, my wife told me about a bumpersticker she saw that said "If you are going to ride my ass, at least buy me a drink and pull my hair." She thought it was really funny, although I suspect it would get a few stares at the kids' school.

Quayle - don't bother with your silly little rational arguments. The Left will pay no attention or claim the whole thing will pay for itself. You're arguing with people who have a religious belief in THEIR right to use the state to grant and revoke rights.

Yes, but his IQ is better than yours. Give him a chance and he will tell you so.

I don't know about that. He was supposed to be Con Law professor before he became Veep, yet in his debate with Sarah Palin he misstated the purpose of Article I of the Constitution. So he teaches constitutional law and he doesn't know what's in Article I?

I think my kid's pet bird could get a partial lobotomy and be brighter than Joe Biden.

The GOP are so "holy" they can't handle the "f" word, but they are OK with denying healthcare for children and adults with pre-existing conditions, they're OK with Bible quotes on gun sights, they're OK with rape in the military-- www.republicansforrape.com--they think torture would be OK w/ Jesus, they refuse to help pregnant women w/maternity care but insist on her giving birth to a healthy child, and my personal favorite: they insist that the Bible is devoid of the call to social justice.

The GOP are so "holy" they can't handle the "f" word, but they are OK with denying healthcare for children and adults with pre-existing conditions, they're OK with Bible quotes on gun sights, they're OK with rape in the military-- www.republicansforrape.com--they think torture would be OK w/ Jesus, they refuse to help pregnant women w/maternity care but insist on her giving birth to a healthy child, and my personal favorite: they insist that the Bible is devoid of the call to social justice."

OK. Well, then, let ME get something straight ...

People who are trying to get things straight and pins things down (and, by the way, by implication make accusations of inability to recognize nuance) present their queries as "the XXs [in this case, Republicans] think...".

Not "some XXs". Not "a few XXs". Not even "most XXS."

Oh, no--it's "the XXS...".

Now, it is true that you, Rosanne Ferreri-Feske, CEO, specifically wrote: "The GOP.... But, of course, and as well you know, you followed right quickly thereafter with a whole string of "are's" and "they's". What ought anyone to take from that but that you're not really talking about an official entity, but rather all (and, perhaps, any) individuals who are (and, I suspect, can in any way be) connected with that label, and-- by extension--any other labels you use to diminish people you don't agree with, perhaps don't like, or maybe even both.

Let's review what you wrote, in your own words, one more time:

Blogger Rosanne Ferreri-Feske, CEO said...

"Let me get this straight...

The GOP are so "holy" they can't handle the "f" word, but they are OK with denying healthcare for children and adults with pre-existing conditions, they're OK with Bible quotes on gun sights, they're OK with rape in the military--www.republicansforrape.com--they think torture would be OK w/Jesus, they refuse to help pregnant women w/maternity care but insist on her giving birth to a healthy child, and my personal favorite: they insist that the Bible is devoid of the call to social justice.

Let me make myself clear: I am not calling out a group. And I am not calling out a particular someone on the basis of what I think this, that or another Official Grouping or even group of people must think.

No. I am calling out a particular someone, Rosanne Ferreri-Feske, CEO, based on the way she chose to write a comment she freely chose to post.

You know, Alinsky quotes are all the rage now: He's getting ever more famous and influential, posthumously. FTR, I actually read Alinsky decades ago (along with reading all sorts, and all along the spectrum, of things). I mean, for what that's worth 'n' all.

Anyway, here's a bit of rosemary that's poked its way up into my mind this evening:

"The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives."--Erving Goffman

Hmm. I logged off too early last night and missed the comment by Rosanne Ferreri-Feske.

Rosanne, before we get into "social justice," can I start by asking you what the phrase means to you?

Because to me social justice means that somebody who works harder than his peers should do better that someone who doesn't work as hard. To me social justice means that someone who is into instant gratification should lose out over time to someone who displays more self-discipline. To me social justice means that someone who goes through college taking Mickey-Mouse courses should not get as good a job offer out of college as someone who put in twenty-hour days studying engineering.

And, especially, it means that limousine liberals should not vote for school board members whose policies result in lower-quality education for public school attendees, then send their own kids off to expensive private schools.

No, Big Mike, Cheney and Bush just got our young men and women into a war over OIL, with a lie about weapons of mass destruction. Thousands of young women have had their lives cut short, due to a lie. Might have been better for him just to have used the "F" word than to truly screw us over, don't cha think.As for schools, mine went to public school, because I believe a public education is a civil right, just like healthcare.